Why Clip Art Was Everywhere... Until It Wasn’t

Check out Envato Elements 👉 Clip Art was an inescapable part of growing up in the 1990s, but it was more than that. It was a reflection of the technology that shaped the decades between the birth of the PC to the age of the smartphone. Lofi animations by Kai - @ --- 0:00 The Tier List of Art 1:23 Analog Clip Art - Volk Clip Books 3:19 Sponsor: Envato Elements 5:14 1984: MacPaint and the Mac ecosystem 8:17 Sidebar: Broadcast Graphics vs Home Computers 9:13 1989: Scanners and Autotrace 12:29 Case Study: Ron & Joe’s Art Parts 13:58 1995: CD-ROMs and the Clip Art Collection Wars 18:06 1998: Digital Projectors level up PowerPoint 19:58 Microsoft Goes All in on Clip Art 22:18 The Post-Clipart Age & The Birth of Corporate Memphis 24:27 Reborn or Rebranded? Rightfully reviled? 25:58 No soul, no value? What Clip Art Says About Us. --- Some selected references: --- 🛒My YouTube Gear 🛒Amazing AI Upscaling Music from Streambeats and Epidemic Sound